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Political “warrior” Bernie Sanders wants to pull off a Golden State shocker next week!

The Vermont senator spent his Monday night with basketball buddy Danny Glover at Oakland’s Oracle Arena, watching the Golden State Warriors win Game 7 of the NBA’s Western Conference final.

The candidate arrived at halftime with Golden State trailing, 48-42, and sat alongside Glover behind the Oklahoma City bench, in $1,085 apiece seats in Section 108 row 15 — a high-priced section usually frequented by millionaires, or people donating more than $27 to political campaigns.

Sanders was quick to analogize his campaign to the Dubs, who staved off three consecutive elimination games on their road to the finals.

“Last week, Golden State was down three games to one,” Sanders tweeted late Monday after the Dubs completed their stirring rally. “Tonight they finished off a great comeback in California. I like comebacks.”

Sanders was a slam dunk with Warriors fans, happily shaking hands and posing for pictures. He was easy to spot, wearing a blue shirt while almost everyone else at Oracle donned gold T-shirts with the Warriors’ team-first motto, “Strength in Numbers.”

Of course, the scoreboard Sanders faces now is much more daunting than the deficit that Steph Curry, Klay Thompson and Golden State overcame.

Frontrunner Hillary Clinton leads him in the delegate count – 2,312 to 1,545 – and is at the doorstep of reaching the magic number for nomination at 2,383, according to estimates by The Associated Press.

The race is much closer without the estimate of loosely committed superdelegates, Democratic bigwigs who can vote any way they want. Without superdelegates, Clinton’s lead is 1,769 to 1,501.

Sanders hopes to close that gap going into the party convention and then convince enough superdelegates to flip, arguing he’d be a stronger candidate against presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.

Voters go to the polls in California on Tuesday, with 475 delegates at stake. In the latest polling, Clinton and Sanders are running neck-and-neck in the Golden State.